Beach Loot

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My. Beach. Loot.

With the assistance of my family, I managed to take home a <very> nice assortment of rocks. stones, fossils and sea glass from the shores of Lake Michigan.

Yep.  I sorted them.  It was awesome.

So awesome in fact, that I think I’ll do it again tomorrow!

I’m not going to bore ya’all with the scientific, fancy and proper names of the stones.  I mean, really…. who cares?

When I sort them I name them what I want!


Here we go …..

The marble-y stones.  Lots of colors and smooth.

The big flatties –  many shapes and sizes …

Smooth, round-ish black stones.  
My favs are round and look & feel like coins.

Larger and flatter black stones

Another favorite – 
the smooth brown stones
with a couple awesome orange stones tossed in.

Pretty cool texture on some of them
…  and a fish shape!

smaller tan, flat stones
nothing special, just like ’em

A Geode …

Fossils



This is a Crinoid.. <making an exception here on the rock names>
A marine invertebrate, also known as a “sea lilies”.  This animal is fixed to the sea bottom by a stalk and resembles a plant.  Sometimes called  “Indian Beads” by beach collectors. These crinoid fossils are from the Paleozoic Era (from 540 to 245 million years ago). 


Aren’t these awesome?  
Flat with multiple holes.
Mr. D thinks we should string them.
Have to dig out my leather string

The red stones 

and the white stones

and the ever elusive
Beach Glass …  if found on inland waterways
Sea Glass … if found on oceans/sea shores

Now to figure out a plan on how and where to use these beauties!

Which are your favorites?